A few jobs this weekend, fitted a rear defuser from HT Autos good quality and a good fit, i would recommend theses, also fit my new LED side indicators also great quality and no silly orange bulb showing

 

Do you have to drill the wheel well to fit the difuser?

 

Hi Waterboy, yes if you want it solid, i drilled a couple of 4mm holes and before i put the bolts through i put lots of copperslip through the holes and around the bolts , im not concerned about it rusting now, ,

 

I love brake ****

 

What about the RB320?

 

Fitted a STi duracon gearknob in the XV and ordered a STi flexi tower bar for it.

 

Pics or its not true mr P

 

Refitted my freshly painted door handles, having treated the rusting backing plate lugs and then zinc primed them.

 

Blimey , how many more jobs can one do to their motor you really have gone through it , whats next ?
I suppose hospitality will be the last to get the nod to go back to work ?.

 

I've had alot of house painting, wall pointing, and surfing to do as well!

 

Wow what a place to live , your so lucky looks lovley

 

Sure you've the North sea what you complaining about

 

and the lovley North Yorkshire moors on my doorstep, i love where i live

 

Mate if you don't mind me asking, previous pictures it looked like you were doing a barn conversion. I'm intrigued is that your main residence or holiday lets etc. Those views look amazing.

 

Gave the car eyelids

 

If I had the money, I think it would be funny oh o ohhh, to take your brakes and have a bit of a drive from me! They look sick.

 

Very 90's retro.

 

100%, if only I could afford the 90's impreza things would be very different

 

good way of disguising them nasty lights dude I must say any before pics ?

 

Cheers mate, yer I think it serves the purpose!


Unfortunately the previous owner broke the OEM ones internally so they wouldn't adjust for the MOT. Had to replace them and OEM is like £300 each for decent ones! So I opted for these for £200 brand new and have been thinking ever since about how to make them look o.k. lol.

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Finally fitted my oil temp sensor above cylinder 3.
not sure if my wife is super strong or if I loosened it for her but we got it off.
While installing I used maths to clean out the intercooler and brake cleaner to clean the breather pipes out. Quite a lot of gunk in one end.

Also spent an hour cleaning the engine bay while the cooler was off.
only kicker is I knocked the spacer that the intercooler bolts to off and can't locate it.

I love tackling jobs and it all working. The car fired up quicker than ever. Maybe the meth vapour helps?


One sensor to go

Before the clean

After the cleaning - notice the intercooler bolt.

Before rhe clean

New adaptor in

Quarter of a turn at a time

Always protect the important bits

 

Hi Robsy, great job , where did you get that blue belt cover from ? i was looking at Perrin ones but they dont do blue, Cheers

 

Thanks mate, yer I think it came out alright and kinda solves the fugly headlights.

 

Hi all, thought i would remove the old centre pipe today and replaced it with a straight through stainless steel one, sounds a lot better in my opinion ,

 

Fitted my fire extinguisher, its a Kap kit with extra straps so I can mount a 2lt bottle

 

Finally got my new Simpson Race Engineering exhaust fitted, it’s should be a bit more track friendly at 2 bar now

 

been thinking of doing this myself recently.

what brand did you go for?

how loud has it made it? (I’ve got zero cats)

 

finally installed water temp sensor and topped up the coolant.

Next its passanger side rocker cover, pas pipes when they arrive and engine dress up kit.

 

I'd swap out water temp for boost gauge
water temp is a pretty pointless gauge given there is one in the oem cluster

 

Actually it is a good idea to have water temp as the oe gauge is very inaccurate and doesn’t register changes in temp unless it’s catastrophic!